STAGE PERFORMANCES

Dandelion Joy Music director Annie Loch is bringing the JOY of the ukulele to kids at this year's festival! In this class, designed for beginners, ages 7-11, your kids will play games, learn a few new songs and do a songwriting activity. The theme will be “Our Favorite Foods”.

Teens and adults: join us and jumpstart your musical journey - you'll be strumming your first song by the end of the hour! Pre-teen kids are welcome with parent supervision and encouragement. Bernadette Mata is a certified music teacher and holds a bachelor's degree in music and a master's degree in education.

For all rank novices who have never played an instrument before but with a focus on seniors seeking mental exercise - because learning something new is great for brain health! Melanie Lawson Kareem is the Founder and Creative Director of Get Started Playing Ukulele; her proprietary teaching materials and methods simplify and expedite the learning process.

You can strum through the basic chords without stopping and breaking the rhythm. Perhaps you've nailed down a couple of strumming and fingerpicking patterns as well. 

You have an extended chord vocabulary and can strum a steady rhythm while singing. An intermediate student is able to catch on and follow along on simple tunes fairly quickly.

You can hear chord progressions, mastered some chord inversions and barre/4-fingered closed chords and can strum/fingerpick a steady rhythm while changing chords.

Dani Usero - Advanced

Danielle Ate The Sandwich - All levels

Cathy Fink - Intermediate

Sarah Maisel - Confident Beginner

Sarah Maisel - Confident Beginner

Cory Mau - Confident Beginner

Marcy Marxer - Intermediate

Marcy Marxer - Intermediate

Abe Lagrimas - Advanced

Abe Lagrimas - Advanced

Joe Souza - All levels

Kimo Hussey - All levels

Robert Krout, Music Therapist - All levels

Robert Krout, Music Therapist - All levels

All levels

Peter Luongo - All levels

All levels